Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:48:05 -0400 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Oliver Peter <hoschi@mouhaha.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... Message-ID: <8d23ec860705160348v4f764652w3d89b3a7a7953523@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <023c01c7978a$cd64e110$6400a8c0@msdi.local> References: <00a401c7970d$cf443030$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <20070515212603.GD27529@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <20070515213815.GA45661@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070516071755.GB33559@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <023c01c7978a$cd64e110$6400a8c0@msdi.local>
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On 5/16/07, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Peter [mailto:hoschi@mouhaha.de] > Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Where can I change the address root@localhost.mydomain.com to > > > > machinename@mydomain.com ? > > > > Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases > > > > You can alias root to go to your favorite address. > > Don't forget to run newaliases(1) after editing the file. > > > > Of course, doing this will mean that all mail to root will > > go to you. > > Hhm. I thought the problem was that you would like to change the From: > of those e-mails not the To: ? > > -- > Oliver PETER, email: hoschi@mouhaha.de, ICQ# 113969174 > "Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Exactly... I receive the emails since I correctly configured my aliases to > redirect all mails externally... > > The problem I have is with the from... > > Someone told me to change the hostname in rc.conf, that won't work since I > have 4 machines: > > Machine1.mydomain.com > Machine2.mydomain.com > Machine3.mydomain.com > Machine4.mydomain.com > > I want the mail from to be > root@mydomain.com not root@localhost.mydomain.com > ... > > Not too sure where to look into to fix this > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Try checking /etc/rc.conf for your hostname var. Also, /etc/hosts
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